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Grand prize-winning piece by Janielle Perez is on display at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., until Jan. 11, 2026. Perez is a student at Resurrection Catholic School in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. / Credit: Tessa Gervasini/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 5, 2025 / 16:08 pm (CNA).Children across the U.S. received awards for their artwork portraying the Nativity of Jesus in Washington, D.C."Through their creativity, they have beautifully expressed the story of Christ's humble beginning and what it means to be young missionary disciples," said Alixandra Holden, director of the Missionary Childhood Association (MCA), one of four Pontifical Mission Societies in the U.S., at a Dec. 5 awards ceremony.MCA's mission is "to help children grow in faith by teaching them to pray and sacrifice for other children around the world." Since 1933, the organization has encouraged children to evangelize by depicting the Nativity of Jesus.Gr...

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null / Credit: itakdalee/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Dec 5, 2025 / 12:07 pm (CNA).A Catholic Virginia student will receive payments including attorney's fees after a school district conceded a lawsuit she brought over the district's transgender policies.The student, identified in the October lawsuit as "Jane Doe," said the Fairfax County School Board violated her constitutional rights when it subjected her to "extreme social pressure" to affirm transgender pronoun conventions.Doe, identified as a "practicing Roman Catholic who strives daily to live in accordance with her faith," felt compelled to engage in self-censorship in which she attempted to "avoid using pronouns altogether" in many circumstances due to fear of punishment from school officials, according to the suit.When she expressed concerns over sharing a bathroom with a male student, meanwhile, she was told she could "use a private restroom if she felt uncomfortable," according to the suit.On Dec. 2 the law group America F...

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Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City. / Credit: Salvador alc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPuebla, Mexico, Dec 5, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).The metropolitan cathedral of the Archdiocese of Mexico will host a special program to celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe on the night of Dec. 11, the eve of the solemnity of the Virgin of Tepeyac.  Under the title "Guadalupe Night," a program is planned that will begin at 6 p.m. local time with a procession that will depart from the Church of Santa Inés (St. Agnes) carrying the "Virgin of the Oath" (of loyalty) which, as explained on the cathedral's social media, is "the historical image before which the Virgin of Guadalupe was proclaimed patroness of New Spain."Midway between Santa Inés Church and the metropolitan cathedral stands what was once the archbishop's palace, built by the first bishop of Mexico, Friar Juan de Zumárraga. It was precisely to this place that St. Juan Diego, the visionary who saw Our Lady of Guadalupe, cam...